"We saw the water monster in Kanas Lake, but also took pictures!" June 9, a tourists playing Kanas Lake called the Morning News hotline said.
This tourist is the Xinjiang Meteorological Technology and Equipment Center staff Fang Wei, June 5, 9:30 or so, she and her colleagues in the Kanas tour, in the middle of the mountain, she saw the water there are two very bright points of light, a flash. Recall that I had previously heard of the Kanas "water monster" thing, called her husband and the chairman of the labor union to see what happened.
"I and four or five colleagues stopped to look at the center of the lake, there really is something in the swim, not 1, is 4, from the direction of Kanas Bay to the direction of the two Bay swim, swim through the water surface delineation of the two long water traces, the head of a moment to reveal the surface of the water, and a moment to sink into the water. The biggest one is at least 7 meters, and the smaller one is more than 5 meters. I immediately took out my camera and snapped a picture." Fang Wei's husband Zhang Pingwen said.
Reporters in the Zhang Pingwen shot "water monster" photos to see, Kanas Lake, there is indeed a fish-like objects on the surface of the water in the forward swim, unfortunately, the picture is not very clear.
Zhang Pingwen regretted shaking his head: "At that time, I was too excited, forgetting that there is a camera."
Cai Zhenkun, chairman of the trade union of Xinjiang Meteorological Technology and Equipment Center, said, "At that time, there were 10 tourists also saw the 'Lake Monster', and all took pictures."
Professor Huang Renxin of the Department of Biology at Xinjiang University was one of the first experts to pay attention to the "water monster" in Kanas, and he believed that the water monster seen by witnesses could be a huge fish.
According to the data show that very early, there is a legend in the Kanas Lake witnessed the water monster. 1980, the experts had set up a hundreds of meters on the surface of the lake, but the next morning, the big net disappeared without a trace.
Mu the Kanas Lake with grass-scented water gas sunshine, visitors from Guangdong Mr. Zhang said excitedly: "I finally saw the mysterious Kanas Lake, if I can be fortunate enough to see the appearance of the lake monster, I will be satisfied."
The tourists who stand at the edge of Kanas Lake with the same mindset as Mr. Zhang are quite a few. The mysterious and unpredictable Kanas "Lake Monster" since the last century 80's "famous" at home and abroad, like a huge magnet attracted tourists who love to explore the mystery. More and more tourists come from far and wide to the picturesque Kanas Lake hoping to see the "water monster" look.
So far, the mystery of the "water monster" has not been unraveled.
There are many legends about water monsters in the world. But all of these legends have since been proven to be either some form of misidentification or a farce. There is hardly any place where the legend can stand up to long scrutiny. However, there is one place that is very special - Kanas Lake in Xinjiang, China. In this picturesque place, rumors of water monsters seem to be getting closer to reality.
On June 7, 2005, a group of tourists from Beijing took a boat tour on Kanas Lake, and when the boat traveled to the vicinity of the Three Roads Bay, the water more than 200 meters away from the boat suddenly stirred up a 1-meter-high, 20-meter-long wave. The sudden appearance of the waves quickly surging toward the center of the lake.
Tourist Li Xiaoling captured this very precious footage.
After a big wave, it was noticed that a huge figure appeared under the surface of the water in the distance, and this figure was also swimming rapidly towards the center of the lake. After a while, the original connected unidentified objects became two, one in front of the other diving under the surface of the water. About two minutes later, the two unidentified objects were invisible underwater and quickly disappeared. This is the only time humans have ever photographed an unidentified object in Kanas at close range. This sighting has brought back the long rumored legend of the Kanas Water Monster. Is the figure dancing under the surface of the water the legendary water monster, and how big is it? And what could it be?
The ranger of the Kanas Authority, Jin Gang, is one of the earliest witnesses of the water monster. 25 years ago on August 1, Jin Gang saw a huge red object floating in the middle of the entire Kanas Lake. It was 15 or 16 meters long. This was the first time he had ever seen such a large floating object in Kanas Lake, and he noticed that the unknown object was moving slowly. Strangely, when he came back the next day, the object had already disappeared without a trace.
Could King Kong see the object as dead wood? Because in the head part of the upper reaches of Kanas Lake often pile up some dead wood and float with many animal bones, causing horror phenomenon here. But why those dead wood did not go downstream, instead of deposited in the upper reaches? If not then what could it be?
Two years later, in the fall, King Kong was on horseback patrolling the mountains when he once again saw an unidentified object in the middle of the lake that was roughly 40 or 50 centimeters high. When he went to a nearby herdsman's house to borrow a telescope to see what was going on, he was reprimanded by the local residents. And told King Kong that this was not something to talk about. This makes King Kong very surprised and confused, these old people seem to be deliberately hiding some secret.
Some people from the Tuva tribe near Kanas Lake also said they had seen a one-meter-long dorsal fin, but didn't know what it was. It seems that people also know that something mysterious exists inside the lake. Moreover, many local legends about water monsters have been circulated. So why did the locals make up these legends? Is there really any unknown secret behind it?
The rumor of the water monster has been circulating that there is not a single boat on the calm lake, but there will often be strangely sudden big waves. Sailiq, a cadre of the Kanas Administration, and Tong Baoming, a driver, witnessed another sighting of the water monster near Sidawan. What does the legendary water monster look like? Inside the not-so-large lake of Kanas, is there really a dinosaur-like monster like the ones that have been rumored around the world?
This sighting was widely rumored, and together with the previous rumors and sightings, people believed that there was really a water monster in Kanas Lake. In order to prove that this is true, a scientific expedition will soon come to Kanas, what kind of explanation can they bring us?
In the summer of 1985, a scientific expedition came to Kanas, one of the purposes of which was to investigate whether there was really a water monster in Kanas Lake, led by a professor from the Department of Biology of Xinjiang University, Mr. Xiang Lixin. Initially, they patrolled the lake for a few days and found nothing, but one morning, the sound of the lake suddenly changed. A wave rose from the lake, and a huge shadow swam beneath it. In the binoculars, Xiang Li new vaguely see a red beast slowly swim through and quickly disappeared.
The next day, some of the entire expedition saw dozens more things moving under the water, and later more than 100, with reddish-brown backs. The shadows of these large fish were huge, with an estimated length of ten meters away, and the expedition temporarily called what they saw the Big Red Fish.
On the third day, Yuan Guoying and his companions at the Xinjiang Institute of Environmental Science and Research also saw many reddish-brown dots on the blue-green lake, like tadpoles with fish heads, and many huge shadows on the lake. Some of these shadows could also faintly make out the shape of the fish. Yuan Guoying total*** saw about 60 or so big fish, and he conservatively thought that the length of the fish was usually more than 10 meters. Well, the length of this fish is mind-boggling. So far people know that the largest freshwater fish is the sturgeon from China, which can reach a length of about 7 meters and weigh up to a ton. The length of the big fish seen by experts in Kanas is more than twice that of the sturgeon, almost comparable to the largest creature in the ocean, the whale. If this is true, the big fish found in Kanas is definitely the world's largest freshwater fish.
The amazing discovery left the team in disbelief, and to prove it was real, they decided to catch a big red fish. They made giant hooks, used a 2-meter-long log as a float, and nylon rope as a line. However, these fish are very cunning. Whether it was a leg of lamb as bait or a mallard duck as bait, the result was still nothing.
Although the water monster was not captured, but the experts agreed that it must be a fish, and tend to Cherokee salmon. This is because it is very ferocious, has bizarre behavior, a white belly and red spots on its body, with the red spots becoming more pronounced as an adult. It also happens to match the color of the water monsters seen in sightings. However, the largest record of Chironomus salmon caught by people in the past was only a little more than 2 meters, so why was the one seen this time so huge, reaching more than ten meters? The expedition team was puzzled by this, and Xiang Lixin wrote a paper to publicize the discovery. The paper immediately caused a sensation at home and abroad.
Ren Mulian, who has long been engaged in the investigation of aquatic resources, strongly questioned the ability of the chum salmon to reach a length of 10 meters. According to the fish survival environment and the length of the specific formula for projection, Kanas Lake fish, the largest body length of three meters 73, weighing five hundred and six kilograms, it is unlikely that it will be more than ten meters. Kanas Lake is only 24 kilometers long, 3 kilometers at its widest point and 1 kilometer at its narrowest point. How can it support hundreds of fish of that size? And how do these fish survive? The Cherokee salmon found in Kanas that reach lengths of 10 meters or more are already seriously beyond the experience of scientists. Ren Mulian has decided to make a personal expedition, and he plans to catch the Cherokee salmon to prove his point correct. It will also be a daunting challenge; will he succeed?
On July 12, 1988, Ren Mulian and his companions arrived at Kanas Lake. Fishing for Cherokee salmon must be on a sunny day, between eleven and one o'clock at noon. And the first few days were cloudy and rainy. It was not until July 25 that the cloudy sky gradually lifted. But Kanas Lake is 188 meters deep, at which depth should the nets be arranged? How would they proceed and how would they fish? One question after another plagued them.
It took six full days of catching before the team had any luck, but it was disappointing to see that a **** of more than fifty Cherokee salmon were all very small. The largest fish was just over seventy centimeters and weighed four thousand five hundred grams. What was this all about?
The total **** of the 1988 expedition went on for two months, and Ren Mulian and his team concluded that the length of the chum salmon here would be no more than four meters. The sightings also seemed to cool off as their expedition ended. Nowadays, in the waters where the water monster was once observed, the influence of nearby tourism development and the shuttling of yachts are very likely to affect the normal activities of underwater creatures. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility of holding the salmon without being discovered.
On September 27, 2003, a massive earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the border between Russia and China. The Authority's personnel Sailik and Tong Baoming driving a boat traveling to Erdao Bay, saw the water monster, and felt that the monster had oval-shaped, not completely out of the water height of the case of the length of more than ten. Could it be that the earthquake made that long unseen monster reappeared?
After less than two years, June 7, 2005, a group of tourists from Beijing on the surface of the lake in Kanas boat tour, when the boat traveled to the vicinity of the three Bay, suddenly saw a giant object from the shore to swim to the heart of the lake. It eventually turned from one to two, one in front of the other. The person in question took video footage of the monster, and from the footage it was faintly apparent that there was a shadow underwater, and in some frames a triangular dorsal-fin like object that was exposed to the surface was visible. If the shadow is really a chum salmon, and the length really reaches between 10 and 20 meters, then, according to the growth of this weight and length relationship to infer that the fifteen-meter fish is thirty-two tons, which could be exactly like the whales of the ocean.
The important thing is that the most basic characteristic of a living organism, whether it is big or small, is that it has a metabolism. If the Chironomus salmon in Kanas can mutate to reach lengths of 10 meters or more, what will they eat?
Moreover, under normal circumstances, Chilos must migrate to the shallow waters of the upper reaches of the lake in order to reproduce, and the upper reaches of the river in Kanas are rapids and shallows, and those 10 meters or more are difficult to pass through in any case. How do these Cherokee salmon reproduce?
There is also speculation that people are seeing new species, but every species has juveniles, and no large juveniles of new species have been found in Kanas during the many expeditions.
On the one hand, there is ample evidence from eyewitnesses at all levels, and on the other hand, there is strong skepticism from fish researchers, so who is closer to the truth? How many more secrets are hidden at the bottom of the deep lake in Kanas?
After a long glacial period, in the canyons of the northwestern Altai Mountains, leaving a crescent-shaped lake - Kanas. 200,000 years, Kanas has been shrouded in isolation in the fog, until a group of rangers came here in the early 1980s, a long-hidden secret to be discovered. A long-hidden secret was revealed to the world.
Kanas Lake is crescent-shaped, people are accustomed to divide the lake area into a bay, two bays, three bays and four bays, the northernmost end of the lake is also called the head of the lake, which is also a rare place. Once, a ranger named King Kong to the head of the lake forest to patrol, when he tied his boat to the shore, down from the mountain, suddenly saw a floating object on the lake, this object and the boat distance of about four to five hundred meters away, the initial judgment of the length of the boat has twice the length of the boat.
They saw that the object showed only a black spine, had been moving slowly, and gradually became unrecognizable because it was getting late.
Two years later, one summer, King Kong again went to a ranger station, and at four or five in the afternoon, when he inadvertently looked out over the lake, he suddenly saw this déjà vu again.
However, when he tells this to a local old man, he is severely reprimanded, and the old man, who seems to know all about monsters in the water, instructs King Kong not to spread the word. The old man belongs to a special tribe around the lake, who call themselves the Tuva people, descendants of Genghis Khan. The tribal elders have always believed that there is a monster in Kanas Lake, and is honored as the Lake Saint, is their protector.
Tong Baoming is one of the earliest motorboat drivers on the Kanas Lake, once driving a boat on the lake patrol, suddenly a huge wave hit, the boat lurched up, in the panic he saw a black object in the huge wave under the swing, quickly disappeared.
It is said that in the early 1980s, two brave hunters decided to catch a water monster. However, they disappeared in the place where the water monster was most often found.
Prof. Huang Renxin of the Biology Department of Xinjiang University, one of the first experts to focus on the Kanas Water Monster, believes that the Kanas Water Monster is likely a misjudgment of natural phenomena, such as waves on the water surface, plankton, and floating dead wood, among others. If what the eyewitnesses saw was indeed some kind of aquatic animal, Huang Renxin thinks the most likely one is a fish, a very large fish. But excluding all the above assumptions, the Kanas water monster is not possible is a kind of human has not yet found a monster, a kind of prehistoric giant crocodile or dinosaur behemoth?
Yuan Guoying, an expert at the Xinjiang Environmental Protection Research Institute, checked the paleontological populations in Xinjiang, and did not find any dinosaur remains in the vicinity of Kanas, and the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, while the Kanas Lake has only a history of 200,000 years, which has no connection to either space or time. Of course, Yuan Guoying does not rule out a very small possibility, whether there are some ancient remains of the species after migration, in Kanas this special environment to survive?
In 1980, led by the autonomous regional government, a number of scientific research units composed of the Kanas Comprehensive Expedition Team was established, although the search for water monsters is not written into the schedule, but this is the desire of every member of the expedition.
The team members responsible for the research of land animals and plants have discovered some rare species of animals, such as Altai forest frogs, fetal lizards, and albino bears.
The albino bear is not the familiar polar bear, but a special mutant species. This suddenly gave the expedition members a revelation: at the bottom of the Kanas Lake is there also an ordinary aquatic animals, through the special environment of alienation, and become huge and ferocious?
Meanwhile, another expedition in the wilderness of Lop Nor, Xinjiang, broke the unfortunate news that the famous scientist Peng Jiamu had mysteriously disappeared.
The expedition members, in search of the water monster, set up a large net hundreds of meters long on the lake, but by the next morning, the large net disappeared without a trace. The first thing the team suspected was that the current had washed it away. Follow the lake downstream to look for, the results of two days looking for nothing. Did the herdsmen in the lake area steal the net? But the herders were friendly to them, and that seemed highly unlikely.
Three days later, two kilometers upstream from where the net was cast, someone accidentally found the net, which had been churned up and torn open.
Is this the work of the legendary water monster? Unfortunately, after more than three months of inspection in 1980, this mystery has not been unraveled. Time flies to 1985, for the establishment of a nature reserve in Kanas, a large-scale comprehensive study again, Huang Renxin and Yuan Guoying were also as the leader to go.
At that time, the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang University expedition was Prof. Xiang Li Xinxin of the Department of Biology, who found that one morning, a huge wave suddenly rose up on the surface of the calm lake, and under the wave, the shadow of a giant red fish was gradually revealed! The fish, estimated to be 10 meters long, quickly sank back into the water.
Xiang Lixin returned to the camp, immediately released the news, we have to run to the west side of the Kanas Lake on the top of the mountain called the fish watching pavilion position to go up to watch, and indeed found that there are dozens of large and small red spots on the surface of the lake, the experts also took photos.
With the help of binoculars, the expedition members were basically sure that those red spots were big red fish. Afterwards, people analyzed the photos, compared the spots on the water and the trees along the shore, and found that the length of the largest spot is about 2/3 of the height of the tree, and the lake is mainly growing Siberian larch and birch trees, most of them are more than 15 meters high, according to this estimation, the big fish in the lake may be 10 meters long.
Experts believe that this method of estimation is not scientific, and the object in the water through the refraction of light can also cause errors, the best way to capture a physical object.
On the third day after the discovery of the big red fish, Xiang Lixin and Huang Renxin used an oversized hook to hang a large leg of lamb as bait, and a 2.8-meter-long log as a float to go fishing.
Not long after, they saw the surface of the water under the shadow of the fish swimming over, but none of the bite, just saw a big fish passed by the float side by side, the length of about three times the buoy, that is to say, the fish is nearly 9 meters long.
According to the two fishing expeditions in 1980 and 1985, there are roughly 8 kinds of fish in Kanas Lake, excluding small herbivorous fish, experts focused on the following 4 kinds of fish, which are the river cod, Arctic fennel, fine scaled salmon, and chernozem salmon, and through repeated comparisons and studies, we unanimously cast the spotlight on the chernozem salmon.
First of all, the Cherokee salmon has reddish-brown skin during the breeding season, and secondly, the Cherokee salmon is also the most ferocious and largest of the above four fish. From the point of view of a specimen of Cherokee salmon that has been caught, which is about 1.45 meters long, this fish has a narrow body shape, flat head, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, even in the upper and lower palate and tongue are covered with barbs, biting the food, and it is difficult for the food to escape.
In and many "water monster" witnesses, most of them believe that what they see is likely to be a big fish, the black image in the water is the back of the fish.
However, even after identifying the Kanas Water Monster as a Cherokee salmon, there are still some questions that are difficult to explain. First of all, so far from the Kanas Lake to capture the length of the Cherokee salmon has not been more than 3 meters, can not prove that there will be 10 meters long fish in the lake, in addition, the Kanas Lake is there for the existence of giant fish ecological conditions? The chum salmon belongs to the salmon family, an important characteristic of the salmon family is the migration during the breeding season, and the Kanas Lake is a river-crossing lake, its upstream and downstream channels are relatively narrow, especially the part connected to the lake area, most of them are some rocky shallows, how do the big fish pass through?
On September 27, 2003, around 7 pm, Sailiq and colleagues in a motorboat to the lake patrol, motorboat line to the two-way bay, boom set off a huge wave, a huge black object jumped out of the water about 20 meters or so ...... (note: September 27, 2003, Russia, Mongolia, China) border was struck by a 7.9-magnitude earthquake, and the water monster's unusual behavior may be related to this).
The scene brought people back to the debate that took place more than a decade ago, and some of the speculations that had been made are now suddenly in tatters, but it at least shows that there is indeed a behemoth in Kanas Lake, and that it hasn't disappeared despite the decades that have passed. ......
This is one of the world's unanswered This is a world unsolved mystery, but this mystery is waiting to be solved ......